August anderson



A. ANDERSON.

MASSAGING IMPLEMENT. APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 10. i918.

1 ,3 1 3, 448 Patented Aug. 19, 1919.

INVENTOR,

HIS ATTORNEY.

AUGUST ANDERSON, 0F BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA.

MASSAGING IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 19, 1919.

Application filed September 10, 1918. Serial No. 253,387.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AUGUsT ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Berkeley, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Massaging Implements, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and effective instrument by which massage can be readily applied to the skin of the face or hands and such that the sensation produced by such massage will be agreeably therapeutic.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the instrument; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of a terminal portion thereof.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates a. piece of spring wire, which is preferably of silver, copper, or other precious or semiprecious metal. The middle portion of said wire is bent into a loop 2 to increase the power of the spring, and the sides of said wire diverge from said loop and can be pressed together against the resilient force of the wire. For the purpose of more conveniently pressing the sides of the wire together, one of them is formed with a circular loop 3 in a plane at right angles to the loop 2.

The ends of the wire are inserted in sockets A formed axially in approximately cylindrical plugs A of wood or other suitable rigid material.

Fitted closely around the outer portions of said plugs are the necks or mouths of rubber cups 6. Said cups project a sufficient distance beyond theouter ends of the plugs so as to provide completely flexible bulbous outer portions, the tips of which, when moved along the skin of the hands or face, resemble the fingers in their touch. These cups can therefore be termed mechanical fingers.

This similarity is enhanced by the fact that the resistance to compression of said cups is increased on account of the air contained therewithin not being able to escape from the interior of the cup, so that the air also as well as the rubber cup affords a yielding resistance to the pressure on the cup.

The operator places the loop 2 in the I copies of this patent may be obtained for palm of his right hand, the end of his thumb in the loop 3 and the outermost joint of his forefinger against the right-hand portion of the wire close to the mechanical finger thereon. By moving the thumb toward the first finger he presses the mechanical fingers together. He can thus draw their tips over the skin of the face, and by releasing the pressure of the thumb toward the first finger the tension of the spring will move said mechanical fingers outward again. By repeatlng this operation over the different parts of the skin, the whole of the skin of the face or left hand can be massaged.

The skin of the right hand can also be massaged by using the massaging device in the left hand.

I claim:

1. A massaging instrument comprising a piece of spring wire bent in a substantially V-shaped form, and hollow bulbous fingers on its ends.

2. A massaging instrument comprising a piece of spring Wire bent in a substantially V-shaped form, plugs in which the ends of the wire are inserted, and rubber cups the necks of which are secured around the plugs with an airtight fit.

A massaging instrument comprising a piece of spring wire bent in a substantially V-shaped form, and formed with a circular coplanar loop at its bend, and hollow bulbous fingers on its ends.

A. A massaging instrument comprising a piece of spring wire bent in a substantially V-shaped form, one of the sides of said wire being formed adjacent to its free terminal portion with a round loop in a plane substantially perpendicular to the plane of the wire, and hollow bulbous fingers on its ends.

5. A massaging instrument comprising a piece of spring wire bent into a substantially V-shaped form and with a substantially circular coplanar loop at the bend, one of the sides of said wire having a loop adjacent to its free terminal portion in a plane perpendicular to that of the first named loop, substantially cylindrical plugs of rigid material having axial recesses therein the ends of the wire being received in said recesses, and cups of soft rubber the necks or mouths of which closely surround said plugs.

AUGUST ANDERSON.

Washington, D. G. 

